The mass media proclaimed the above as the new millennium began. Acad-
emics and professionals have been holding conferences about it for a while
now. Designers themselves have insisted on it all along. But what, exactly,
does that statement mean? A proliferation of hip hotels and award-winning
potato peelers do not an era make.

The biomedical engineering senior capstone design course is probably the most important course
taken by undergraduate biomedical engineering students. It provides them with the opportunity
to apply what they have learned in previous years; develop their communication (written, oral, and
graphical), interpersonal (teamwork, conflict management, and negotiation), project management,
and design skills; and learn about the product development process.

Established in 1995, the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council (ITRC) is a state-led, national
coalition of personnel from the environmental regulatory agencies of some 40 states and the District
of Columbia; three federal agencies; tribes; and public and industry stakeholders. The organization is
devoted to reducing barriers to, and speeding interstate deployment of, better, more cost-effective,
innovative environmental techniques.

All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every
occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark
owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have
been printed with initial caps.

This paper addresses issues in financial sector regulation from two perspectives. First, it reports on the state of implementation of financial regulatory standards across banking, insurance, and securities sectors in a select group of Fund member countries. Second, it raises issues relating to the design of these three sector standards, arising from the implementation experience and the evolving structure of financial systems. In this regard, the paper identifies a few emerging regulatory risks and some cross-sectoral issues that may warrant further guidance by standard setters....

This textbook will be designed for fixed-income securities courses taught on MSc Finance and MBA courses. There is currently no suitable text that offers a 'Hull-type' book for the fixed income student market. This book aims to fill this need. The book will contain numerous worked examples, excel spreadsheets, with a building block approach throughout. A key feature of the book will be coverage of both traditional and alternative investment strategies in the fixed-income market, for example, the book will cover the modern strategies used by fixed-income hedge funds.

As leading technology providers of financial services solutions, IBM and ACI Worldwide have helped financial institutions worldwide build some of the most sophisticated, comprehensive payment systems in use today. As competitive and regulatory pressures mount and institutions look to transform their payment system infrastructures to reduce risk, enhance ROI and improve time-to-market for new services, it is imperative that they choose technology partners with the necessary experience and expertise....

The art of compliance is a craft much like that of a carpenter who learns to
work with various kinds of wood and designs. Ours is an industry wrought
with differences. While the regulations that govern FDA-regulated industries
are proscribed, how the regulations are interpreted and applied really
depends on experience and how well one has mastered the craft of compliance.
There are no proscribed procedures, but there are guideposts common
to all FDA-regulated industries, whether a firm manufactures medical
devices, pharmaceuticals, or biological products....

This Manual is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 contains background information on the
reasons for regulating emissions from wood furniture manufacturing including a brief regulatory
perspective, an overview of the health effects of the five solvents used in the largest quantities,
sources of emissions from a typical wood furniture manufacturing facility, and a summary of the
new federal wood furniture regulations. Chapter 2 defines pollution prevention (P2) and discusses
the elements of a successful P2 program.

Market and banking supervisors and regulators are in the process of stepping up their
monitoring of the ETF market. Work is underway nationally and internationally on assessing
how recent innovations in this area can add to financial system risks, what incentives underpin
them, and what potential flaws there might be in current risk practices. The interaction of ETF
regulatory frameworks with recent innovations as well as the scope for regulatory arbitrage
across regions and markets is also being examined.

many groups and individuals have been motivated to consider the potential for producing ethanol. Across the
country, farmer cooperatives, rural development coalitions, bio-energy advocates and others have gathered to
explore the process and prospects for developing ethanol production facilities. In many cases these efforts have
resulted in the successful development of ethanol plants.

Law and Administration has never been simply a textbook of administrative
law. As its title signifi es, our primary objective in writing it was to further the
study of law in the context of public administration and politics: the ‘law in
context’ approach. We need to remind the contemporary reader that the fi rst
edition refl ected an era of legal formalism when the study of case law, largely
divorced from its social context, was seen as the be-all-and-end-all of legal
studies.

Addressing diet and physical activity in the workplace has the potential
to improve the health status of workers; contribute to a positive and
caring image of the company; improve staff morale; reduce staff
turnover and absenteeism; enhance productivity; and reduce sick leave,
health plan costs and workers' compensation and disability payments.

This paper presents the design philosophy and initial
design decisions of Herald: a highly scalable global event
notification system that is being designed and built at
Microsoft Research. Herald is a distributed system designed
to transparently scale in all respects, including
numbers of subscribers and publishers, numbers of event
subscription points, and event delivery rates. Event delivery
can occur within a single machine, within a local
network or Intranet, and throughout the Internet.

In spite of all the advances in control over the past 50
years the PID controller is still the most common controller,
see [1]. Even if more sophisticated control laws
are used it is common practice to have an hierarchical
structure with PID control at the lowest level, see [2–5].
A survey of more than 11,000 controllers in the refining,
chemicals, and pulp and paper industries showed that
97% of regulatory controllers had the PID structure, see
[5]. Embedded systems are also a growing area of PID
control, see [6].

This guidance document is intended to serve as a resource for national park, forest, and refuge staff when
considering lichen studies to address air quality concerns. It provides background regarding the use of
lichens as air pollution indicators, their sensitivities to various air pollutants, and the effects of air pollution
on lichen physiology, communities, and tissue chemistry. It discusses the types of information and
objectives that can optimize the utility of lichen studies from an air management and air regulatory
perspective.

Consequently, as the scope and design of the WTC have evolved, particularly in response to the
national symbolic objectives and security concerns that have permeated the development, the
required costs of rebuilding have correspondingly expanded. The objective of completing the
Memorial by the ten‐year anniversary of September 11 became a public mandate to reflect the
profound national symbolism of the WTC’s timely resurrection.

Dadang Christanto is a graduate of the Indonesia
Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Since 1999, he has
taught at the School of Art and Design, University of the
Northern Territory. His art explores social and political
issues in a wide range of media, including painting,
drawing, performance, sculpture and installation.
The sunflashes on the encrusted branches of this soaring
sculpture suggest the wing movements of roosting
metal birds. But the blade shapes are also like hands,
lifted heavenwards by the dead tree so that they can
touch the sky.